1 Thessalonians 2:16

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Summary

Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Forbidding

To fill

Matthew 23:32

General references

Bible References

Forbidding

And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

But the Jews stirred up the women of rank who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them from their borders.

And when a movement was made both of the gentiles, and the Jews with their rulers, to abuse and stone them,

But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them certain bad men of the idlers in the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and having come to the house of Jason, they endeavored to bring them out to the people;

And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul, and brought him before the judgmentseat,

But when some were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of the way [of the Lord] before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of Tyrannus.

And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, stirred up the whole multitude, and laid hands on him,

And he said to me, Depart; for I will send thee far hence to the gentiles.

But as for me, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then hath the cross ceased to be a stumblingblock.

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to make known among the gentiles the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of Christ,

To fill

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers!

General references

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

For there will then be great distress, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor shall ever be.

added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

But as for those enemies of mine, who would not that I should reign over them, bring them here, and slay them before me.

Of sin, because they believe not in me;

But the Jews that disbelieved stirred up and embittered the minds of the gentiles against the brethren.